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New start up league could rival NFL.

FOXSports.com
Posted: 1 hour ago

The NFL may be the most successful league in the country, but that doesn't mean it's without competition.
Bill Hambrecht, a Wall Street businessman, and Tim Armstrong, a senior executive at Google, have decided to start up a rival football league, the United Football League, according to a report on the New York Times web site Wednesday.For those worried that the UFL will lack name recognition, Hambrecht and Armstrong already have one owner lined up: Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks.
And though the league is having a difficult time finding other owners, it appears Cuban is committed to the plan. The league intends to play its first preseason games in August of 2008.
And where will the league find the talent necessary to attract fans?
"(Former NFL coach) Bill Walsh used to tell me that the last 20 players cut from every team were almost interchangeable with the last 20 players to make the team," Hambrecht says.
So far, the UFL has decided to put teams in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Mexico City. Cuban, unsurprisingly, is considering buying the team in Vegas, according to the report.

it has a pretty good following
it would run in the offseason like the AFL
it has some of the first 20 players off most of the NFL rosters
it will draw some from the fans of teams who cant get enough footbal

I don't think it will work either, but I realize they're not expecting to compete with NFL teams for top quality players and therefore, have a chance at filling in the offseason need for football. I don't watch NFL Europe, but I watch AFL.

If I can root for an NCAA team on Saturdays and an AFL team during the spring, I can certainly root for a UFL during the summer. 2nd tier football is better than anything the MLB does before September, excluding the AllStar break.